Fluid Fluorides and Chlorides Reactor Research and Development on
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) Papers, Books, and Reports

Dedication:

This site is dedicated to Dr. Uri Gat, who introduced me to Molten Salt Reactors in 1993 and Dr. Ralph Moir, who continues to help and encourage me and many other pilgrims, in our "Molten Salt Adventures" journey.
Last, but definitely not least, I owe a huge debt to the ORNL "Old Boys", as Professor Furukawa used to call the amazing group of ORNL Molten Salt researchers.

As you progress along your own Molten Salt Adventure, one question the technical documents below will not answer is the natural,
"Why was the MSR not pursued?"

The MOSEL reactor concept (OCRed 1.5 MB PDF)
Design Concepts for the Core Structure of A Mosel (Molten Salt Experimental) Reactor, 1964, by Paul Kasten, Third International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva 1964, A Conf. 28/P/538 Pf538 Federal Republic of Germany
NOTE: An Optical Character Recognition (OCR) version of the paper. WARNING: may contain errors!

NOTE: Molten Salt Reactors are sometimes called: "Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs)", however this subclass of MSRs is a small subset of all the MSR potential designs choices, nor has a MSR ever been constructed and operated with Thorium Tetrafluoride (ThF4). ORNL did operate 2 MSRs using Uranium Tetrafluoride (UF4) in 1954 (Aircraft Reactor Experiment - ARE) and in the late 1960s (Molten Salt Reactor Experiment - MSRE).

Many of these documents came from a set of 6 CD-ROMs, which were created because (text from Index on CD-ROMs):

"This CD-ROM product contains full-text electronic technical reports and documentation on Molten Salt Reactor Technology and the Space Reactor Power System Program for use by researchers and investigators. The CD-ROM was created to support the archiving activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Marshall Space
Flight Center (NASA/MSFC) and Department of Energy/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE/ORNL)."